Latest articles by Andy Chalk
Rusty Lake celebrates 10 years of strangeness with a free game, a new game announcement, a short film, and a big sale
news Servant of the Lake will be "a classic single-player Rusty Lake point-and-click adventure."
Gearbox is 'making rarity matter again' in Borderlands 4 after dropping too many legendaries in Borderlands 3
news Borderlands 3 "devalued" legendary items, so in Borderlands 4 they'll "truly be special events."
EA says Codemasters won't be making any more rally games: 'We've reached the end of the road working on WRC'
news The FIA says it's going in an "ambitious new direction" with future WRC game releases, but for Codemasters it's the end of an era.
Evil Dead: The Game is being removed from sale just three years after it launched
news Saber Interactive has confirmed the takedown is intentional, but won't say why.
Randy Pitchford says Borderlands 4's new release date 'is literally 0% about any other product’s actual or theoretical launch date,' and you know he's talking about Grand Theft Auto 6
news The Borderlands 4 release date was moved up by nearly two weeks, and we're all wondering why.
More than 19,000 NFT images briefly disappeared last week thanks to a server problem
news The Clone X collection was only gone for a few hours, but the disappearance raised some rather pointed questions.
Splitgate 2 open beta test kicks off in May with a 'massive amount of new content'
news Developer 1047 Games also teased "infinite maps," but we won't get to know more about that for a while yet.
Electronic Arts lays off hundreds of employees and cancels 2 'incubation projects' including a new Titanfall game
news It's all about "driving future growth," you see.
After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game: 'I'm committed to not working on Stardew Valley until I'm done with Haunted Chocolatier'
news Eric Barone's got a plan for getting Haunted Chocolatier across the finish line—or at least an idea.
Russia accuses World of Tanks executives of 'extremist activities,' moves to seize assets of Russian publisher
news Russia apparently takes issue with Wargaming's opposition to the invasion of Ukraine, but a different company is paying the price.
Elden Ring Nightreign system requirements are good news if you haven't upgraded your PC since you played Elden Ring
news Aside from a bump in CPU requirement, Nightreign's minimum and recommended specs are virtually identical to those of the original Elden Ring.
EA's Skate reboot is always online, and you know what that means
news The promised "living, breathing massively multiplayer skateboarding sandbox" sounds great, but what happens when the servers go offline?
Nexus Mods decides to allow an Oblivion Remastered mod that changes 'body type' options to male/female, declares it's not 'a battleground for broader cultural or political debates'
news The mod was deleted multiple times before Nexus Mods threw in the towel.
The new shooter from the former 4A Ukraine studio was supposed to launch today, but instead it got a last-second delay and nobody knows for how long
news A closed beta test earlier this month was also delayed, and apparently did not go very well.
Hugo Martin isn't messing around as he unveils Doom: The Dark Age's new Cosmic Realm: 'Bear witness to the cyclopean architecture of this Lovecraftian dimension!'
news Easy on there, Hugo.
In the most delicious irony imaginable, the notorious early 2000s 'You wouldn't steal a car' anti-piracy campaign may have used an 'illegal' font
news And no one noticed for 21 years.
Ubisoft is keeping its promise to add an offline mode to The Crew 2, and testing begins next week
news Ubisoft hopes to have the offline mode released by the end of 2025, but warned that The Crew Motorfest will take longer.
All System Dance developer announces layoffs 'due to financial challenges'
news Indie studio Mighty Yell says "the difficult state of funding in games" has forced it to cut an unspecified number of employees.
The new Frostpunk game that's coming in 2027 is a 'reimagining' of the original in Unreal Engine 5 with new content, mechanics, laws, and—finally—mod support
news Frostpunk 1886 "revisits and expands" upon 2018's Frostpunk and promises a "fresh experience," even for veterans of the original.
Nintendo is trying to force Discord to give up the identity of the person behind last year's massive Pokémon leak
news The 2024 'teraleak' saw a huge trove of previously unreleased Pokémon material released to the public, and Nintendo wants to know who's responsible.
The company behind the Wheel of Time series on Amazon is now working on a Wheel of Time open-world RPG
news The new game aims to "cover the entire world" of Robert Jordan's book series.
Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO
news Co-founder Jason Citron is stepping down, but will remain with the company as a member of the board of directors.
Bethesda gave Oblivion Remastered game keys to the entire Skyblivion development team and 'made it clear that they have no intention of shutting down our project'
news It's a good day for everyone.
